TAGU Tiefbau

image by Eugene Ipavec, 24 Jun 2009

TAGU Tiefbau GmbH âUnterweserâ is a German waterway construction
firm established at Oldenburg with local branches at Nordenham and Rostock.
Website,
German only: We learn that the firm, founded in 1927, was at first active
in its own region (River Weser) concentrating at first on building dykes.
Since the takeover by Ludwig Freytag, another Oldenburg based construction
firm, at the end of the nineteen sixties larger works have been realized
such as dams and canals.
After expanding into Europe new activities include maritime cabling,
offshore services, etc. with an eye to ecologically sound practices.
To get an idea of what this all means, have a look here
(first of three pages): Obviously this calls for highly specialized
equipment (even up for rent), pontoons for instance: the site dutifully
mentions that these all fly the German flag but there is a small supply
ship as well.
Glimpses of the house flag (supply
ship and temporary
quay, respectively).
See the homepage headings for detail: blue with the company logo in
yellow i.e. underlined and stylized, italic initials âTAGUâ.
The name is placed in the centre of the flag rather than near the base
as found on the squares seen throughout the site.
Jan Mertens, 23 Jun 2009

Tanker Compagnie

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2009

Tanker Compagnie GmbH
The company was located in Neuss. It is a red over white over green
horizontal tricolour (the colours of Northrhine-Westphalia, with black
capitals "TC" in the middle of the white stripe.
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen"; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.40
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 Mar 2009

Tankfracht

image by Eugene Ipavec, 14 Sep 2006

Here is what I have found on Tankfracht, starting with this
photo ("Excalibur"): click the camera next to "2006" (bottom
of page) which leads to the photo proper.
Known as âTankfracht Werner Kortmann GmbHâ ("tankfreight"),
this Hamburg based firm shows its "full name" logo here.
Besides this modest web presence, we find the Dutch office "Oeltrans Tankfracht BV" at Papendrecht.

A note on the company founder (in Dutch) is here
(dated 31 Aug. 2004): saying that Mr Werner Kortmann, almost 66, has died
suddenly. He was no longer active and had a good reputation among
tanker bargemen, private and otherwise.

Now the lowercase "t" logo is the last but one on this Vlootschouw page dedicated to "Commander": Rather purple than blue, the logo bears a yellow parallelogram on which is placed a purple stylized lowercase initial "t". On the other hand the house flag on the photo is rather blue than purple.
Jan Mertens, 12 Sep 2006

Tank Partner

image by Eugene Ipavec, 8 Aug 2006

"Tank Partner Chartering Company Ltd" or TPA for short, founded in 1989 "is established at Kaltenkirchen and presents itself as "Europe"s first and only international private shippers' tanker company". Company website: "Partikulier" meaning a shipper who owns his barge: "TPA Tankpartner are focused on mineral oil transportation on the Rhine including its tributaries, and the canals of Western and Northern Germany. All the large mineral oil firms and many mineral oil traders are clients of ours."
The text goes on describing the fleet (from 1000 to 4500 metric tonnes, these last in push combinations) and acknowledges the trend towards double-hulled vessels, one ship being active and more being built or planned. The shares are split up between private shippers (60%) and the management (40%).

The TPA logo (but it is a house flag!) is linked to this webpage. It is quarterly divided white above green (hoist) and red
above white (fly) and bears the words "Tank" and "Partner" in black on the respective white fields. It can be seen, but not very clearly, on the barge "GALAXY", see clickable photo on this page.
Jan Mertens, 11 Mar 2006

Tankreederei Rhein Weser GmbH

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 April 2009

The company was located in Bremen. It was a white flag with a red bordure. In the centre was a blue bunch of grapes. In white squares at each corner are red capitals "T"(upper hoist), "R" (upper fly and lower hoist) and finally "W"(lower fly).
"Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT"; Hamburg 1957; p.F28
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 April 2009

Tankrode

image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 Mar 2009

Obliged to demerger in the nineteen fifties, the Dutch shipping company Van Ommeren, which had been active, under different names, in Germany
since 1908, founded "Tankrode Schiffahrts GmbH" later named "Van Ommeren Tankrode GmbH" both established at Hamburg. Ultimately Van Ommeren's merger with Pakhoed would lead to "Vopak" strengthened by the takeover of "Elbe" becoming the fleet's operator.
The suffix rode found in the company name and in a number of ships' names refers to a feature of the North German landscape, a glade.
The "Binnenvaart" page dedicated to tanker "WALSRODE" shows the house flag as a drawing
and, difficult to recognize, on a colour photo:
As Transtank's case, the Van Ommeren house flag had its stripes recoloured: blue-white-blue-white-blue; a white diamond, placed slightly towards the
hoist, contained the well-known "VO" logo in red.
Jan Mertens, 23 Mar 2009

Tetzner & Bruhn

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,

It is a 7-stripes flag with alternating blue and white stripes having ratio approx 5:1:1:55:1:1:5. In the broad central stripe is a serifed, blue inscription "T&B". Tetzner & Bruhn is a shipbroker having the legal form of a GmbH (~= Ltd.).
Source: I spotted this flagoid on 30 March 2009 in HH-St.Georg.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Jul 2012

Johs. Thode, formerly BTA

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Feb 2009

Johs. Thode, former BTA
Johs. Thode was established as Becker, Thode und Ascher (BTA) in 1890
as a ship broker company. But only a few years later the company ran its
own ships, first only for North Sea and Baltic Sea. In the 60ies of the
20th century Johs. Thode became a pioneer in building cells in order to
freight shuttle services in the Baltic Sea. In the 70ies he again began
to build own ships. In 1979 Kurt Behrens took over the company, being a
partner of Mr. Becker jr. before. Since 1988 the company is led by his
son Dieter Behrens, who is the only companion.
Description of flag: It is a blue flag with a white diamond in its
centre. Within the diamond are red capitals âBTAâ. The âTâ has
double height.
Source: Information provided by /Klaus-Peter BÃŒhne/ per email on 24
February 2009
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Feb 2009

Thoering & Co. GmbH. Klaus-Michael's scanner has led him astray a bit for this one as the diamond is not white but yellow with a white edging and the black "T" is on the yellow - see image, which is taken from
US Navy 1961 where the diamond shape is more flattened, a lozenge, than Klaus Michael's "Esso" source though this should be a little smaller as it is less close to top and bottom [not an important point I feel â just an explanation of the small difference in the images]. Esso's colours do confirm the yellow portion though as do their 1958 edition and the same source format Flaggen& Schornsteine of 1957.
Neale Rosanoski, 14 Nov 2009

Arnold Thyselius

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 May 2009

The company was located in Bremen and existed at least until 1957. It had been dissolved long time ago. As the company never had been a member of Bremer Rhederverein, the association of Bremen ship ownwers, there was no further information available.
The flag was green fimbriated red. In its centre was a white disc cotized red and white. Within the disc was a red capital "T" superimposing an "A" of the same colour.
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen"; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.40
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 May 2009

J. Tideman & Co.

image by Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

Here's another simple white saltire on red. With a difference, it seems:
this time the saltire appears to be broader. Another difference is the
readability of the caption: this one isn't exactly entirely clear, but
the OCR-tracer in my brain was able to come up with an approximation: J.
Tiefemant & Co.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Dec 2004

Carl Tiede

image by Jorge Candeias, 14 Dec 2004

The flag is a broad spanish fess of blue and white with a yellow 8-pointed
star in the center, that includes a wide blue border and something red
within the border. I think this red thing is a T, shifted to the bottm,
but it seems to me that there's something else above the T. I can't be
sure. Anyway, it's quite an attractive design.
Jorge Candeias, 14 Dec 2004

It's "Carl Tiede" - shares of this company can be seen here
and here.
Click to enlarge, the ships on these shares fly house flags and name pennants;
what's more, a larger flag picture is used in filigrane. According to these
pages, the company was established in Wismar and active 1899-1909.
Jan Mertens, 15 Dec 2004

Toepfer Transport GmbHThe company was established in 1974 by Heinrich A. Toepfer and was an offspring of A.C. Toepfer International. The company today is located at Alstertor in Hamburg.
It is a green flag divided by a narrow white saltire. In its centre is a white disc containing a green serifed capital "T".
Source: I spotted this flag on top of the company building on 17 April 2010
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 May 2010

Toepfer Transport GmbH variant
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 May 2010
The white flag is divided by two pairs of horizontal green stripes, the inner stripes are smaller. In the centre is a green capital "T".
Source: Klaus-Peter Bühne's webpage Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 May 2010

Transatlanta

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2009

"Transatlanta" Schiffahrts-Ges.mbH
The company was located in Hamburg. The MS TRANSATLANTA was the only
ship and corresponding ship owner was Fisser
& Doornum (according to p.18 of source). It is a green flag with
a white lozenge, containing a red capital âTâ in the centre.
Source: Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichenâ; 2nd ed.;
Hamburg; 1956; p.40.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2009

The white diamond should be bigger according to the quoted source, nearly
touching the flag edges and is also shown by the 1957 and 1958 same format
issues whereas Brown 1958 and US Navy 1961 do have the diamond extending
to the flag edges. The company vessels were operated by Fisser & van
Doornum and the livery certainly seems to be based on that of the latter.
They did have a second ship "St. Michel" shown by Lloyds and they may have
well been a subsidiary of Fisser. The source however connects them as "K.R."
or Korrespondent-Reeder", not as the latter being the ship owner. They
look to have existed from 1953 when "Transatlanta" was built but gone by
at least 1963 from Lloyds.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 Jul 2010

Transeste Schiffahrt

image by Jarig Bakker, 15 Sep 2005

Transeste Schiffahrt, G.m.b.H., Hamburg - flag white over blue;
in the center the firm's arms. (could the apparatus be a camel - to lift
a vessel from one waterway to another?)
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 15 Sep 2005

TransRussia Express

image by Jorge Candeias, 16 Mar 1999

Horizontal stripes in dark blue, white, red and black. A mixture of
the Russian colours with those of Poseidon,
the mother company.
Jorge Candeias, 16 Mar 1999